I am kind of too scared to ask here, but what did it actually achieve?

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    Politics isn’t sportsball, so no. Breaking arbitrary stats doesn’t mean shit in terms of making material changes in the world, which is what politics is about.

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      And you are the arbiter of what’s meaningful to someone else? Spout off about “sportsball” all you want, but your lack of vision for what material change this might possibly inspire in others helps nobody. Someone, somewhere out there, is fired up over this, and they’ll enact more change than this dogwater attitude ever will.

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        It is not unreasonable to ask why he didn’t use the filibuster to block actual legislation, instead of just I terupting procedure.

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          No, of course it’s not unreasonable to ask that, and I never implied that it is. It would have been incredible if he had chosen a more potent time. But that’s not what is being said, nor was it what I’m arguing against.